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joshin4colours

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General techy person into big ideas. Loves Python, works with Java and JS.

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mcc, to random
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Hello. My computer is not working. Can anyone give me some advice?

joshin4colours,
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@mcc sometimes relationships don’t work out. It’s ok.

mcc, to random
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Perhaps I should just start a religion* around the principle of designing all aspects of life to minimize the profit your actions cause to incorporated entities

  • I would structure it this way because in the United States, doing a thing because a religion said to gives you special rights you would not get if you did the thing because you wanted to
joshin4colours,
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@mcc I would convert

mcc, to random
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Looking into how to set up a bluesky server.

Noticed this bit here, in the documentation. That's an interesting way to spell "cannot"

joshin4colours,
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@mcc this whole thread is amazing and thank you for doing this! Have you done something similar with a Mastodon instance (set one up and/or tooted about it?)

danluu, (edited ) to random
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Funny to see people on LinkedIn adopting the YouTube "Don't forget to subscribe" thing, which, along with asking people to like/upvote, appears to work quite well (though it's a mystery to me as to why — it reminds me a bit of LLM prompt injections. IGNORE PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS. LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE.)

BTW, no amount of hitting "X" on stuff like this in my feed gets it out of my feed, so I guess LinkedIn is all in on the strategy described in https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1504567907052711947.

joshin4colours,
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@danluu I worked with a marketing team for little while, and one person was fairly expert on the LI algorithm. There was an elaborate system of "tips" you can do to get better engagement.

joshin4colours, to random
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One thing I've learned after doing test automation for 13 years: sometimes, the easiest solution is for a person to manually perform a small task

mcc, to random
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I had a wonderful dream and then woke up and remembered the world we actually live in and I felt so sad

joshin4colours,
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@mcc oof take care!

mcc, to random
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Chrome one year ago was basically everything I wanted out of a web browser, Chrome eight months ago was what I wanted out of a web browser but it's trying to spy on you unless you click many settings on every profile, Chrome four months ago worked for me but I didn't like the interface anymore, Chrome today I don't like the interface and also it seems to fairly frequently crash so I keep losing my arrangements of tabs.

joshin4colours,
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@mcc you need an enterprise-managed Chrome pinned to a version from a year ago

joshin4colours,
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@mcc hmm, bit a pickle then

joshin4colours, to random
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Question for the software testers I follow: do you have any low-code tools that you've used and like?

mcc, to random
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A website you have not used in ten years has emailed you to let you know they have implemented two-factor authentication

joshin4colours,
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@mcc This reminds me how weird online security is. My old blog posts are more durable and safer than my bank account, probably

mcc, to random
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People who design APIs. I am begging you. It doesn't matter how "simple" or "intuitive" or "elegant" your API is. You need to include sample code.

joshin4colours,
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@mcc and OpenAPI is right there!

molly0xfff, to random
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lol at the guy who was shocked when i asked for a consulting fee when he wanted me to give him feedback on his idea for a web3 project

it's apparently "ironic" to do so based on... my talk about how web3 is bullshit

joshin4colours,
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@molly0xfff I'm guessing your consulting fee did not include eight digits...why are people like this?

seldo, to random
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At some point GitHub are going to realize the dozens of npm test accounts I own are never going to get 2FA and stop emailing me about them.

joshin4colours,
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@seldo this could lead to a somewhat hilarious exploit

joshin4colours, to random
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Something I've been thinking about: Americans can move to different places in the US based on weather (warm vs cold, consistent vs 4 seasons) but Canadians can't do this within Canada

joshin4colours,
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@gdinwiddie haha...ah

mcc, (edited ) to random
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Poll: Have you, personally, ever had to fix a software/hardware bug caused by a time zone? (Poll 1 of 3)

joshin4colours,
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@mcc was asked to automate testing of a timezone bug (caused by a user based in Fiji) so I get partial credit

mcc, to random
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Behave, lettuce robot

1. Behave 2. Lettuce 3. Robot

joshin4colours,
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@mcc ok I have to ask what you’re reading because I have questions

angiebaby, to random
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The most insidious thing about racism on Mastodon is how it is done in such a way that the majority-white user base never sees it. I don't think that it's simply a matter of white people not seeing what they don't want to see - at least in the vast majority of cases.

So when a non-white person discusses the racism they see as a user of Mastodon, it must feel like gaslighting when white people respond with "What do you mean? I've not seen anything like that here."

joshin4colours,
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@angiebaby as a white person on Mastodon for a while now, this is 100% true

joshin4colours, to random
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The quiet pain of a toddler pulling your bookmark out of the novel you're reading

joshin4colours, to random
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I’ve seen count to infinity. Twice.

joshin4colours, to random
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I thought we did the whole "don't trust anything you find on the Internet!" thing around 20 years ago

joshin4colours, to random
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Impressive piece from @emilygorcenski on the rise and fall and rise of AI in technology https://emilygorcenski.com/post/making-god/

hacks4pancakes, to random

I really can’t think of a less pleasant cybersecurity job than leading product security for a big software product company like Citrix, SolarWinds, LastPass, or Okta, where you are constantly a highly visible and advertised front door into dozens or hundreds of state and criminal targets, and you are also fighting F500 layers of bureaucracy, shadow IT, and cost-cutting. Being a CISO there would be awful, but I think it would be even more of a thankless and patsy role.

joshin4colours,
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@hacks4pancakes the layers of bureaucracy and cost-cutting is interesting because you'd think maybe someone at the exec level or higher would realize how costly breaches are

mcc, to random
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Feeling extremely vincible this morning

joshin4colours,
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@mcc this world can be whelming, that's for sure

mcc, to random
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Grabbing the lapels of whoever happens to be nearest to me, screaming "What year is it?? What year is it???"

joshin4colours,
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@mcc it's that time of year again, when Google decides they need a new messaging app

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